Thanks to Omega Supreme and It is Fake in enlightening me. I guess that is the reason my Muay Thai coach pick on my stance which I had learned from my CMA and TKD days. The side kick was the only weapon I am able to use in competition nowadays.

Thanks to Omega Supreme and It is Fake in enlightening me. I guess that is the reason my Muay Thai coach pick on my stance which I had learned from my CMA and TKD days. The side kick was the only weapon I am able to use in competition nowadays.

Kung-fu to me was all about training with whoever would come along, like the Shaolin Temple. These ideas of only training one way under one sifu? Well my sifu was never like that I had many sihungs and each taught me something different.

I just wanted to comment on your last paragraph, Omega, when you said that kung fu is about who you train with, and I definitely agree with that statement. You develop your own kung fu, since the term "kung fu" translates to "(skill achieved through) hard work." You can have kung fu from doing your forms and doing stance work and bridge work, etc, or you can do that along with having friends that did/do a lot of wrestling in high school and you work on a farm throwing hay bails all day. You get your own kung fu based on what you work hard to gain. You could even describe it as different flavors of the same dish, or as my sifu describes it, math. A lot of people like to do addition and subtraction "on steroids," but we want to throw you some vector calculus to figure out when we touch hands. I'm a small dude, easily the smallest guy in the adult class in my school, so when I train against the guy that's a good foot taller than I am, much faster and athletic than I am, AND 100lbs heavier, I need to have strategies against him that are different from when I fight the guy that's my height and 20lbs heavier.

I hope this made some sense, as I wanted to just reiterate that point you made, which I think is great. Thanks for sharing your biography. I may have missed this while reading, but what's your hung ga sifu's name?

Hi all, great thread. I also started out with Kung Fu (the style was called Hung Kuen) and was based on 5 animals. I then moved onto many other styles 6 years later was fighting in the UFC. Now I have gone full circle back to my kung fu roots, and concentrate on the Chinese Internal Styles.
you can check my fighting highlights on youtube

Hi all, great thread. I also started out with Kung Fu (the style was called Hung Kuen) and was based on 5 animals. I then moved onto many other styles 6 years later was fighting in the UFC. Now I have gone full circle back to my kung fu roots, and concentrate on the Chinese Internal Styles.
you can check my fighting highlights on youtube

nick osipczak

we should get you a pro fighter tag, so people don't talk a bunch of **** to you. probably the best way is to PM a moderator once you have enough posts to do so, then they will tell you the best way to prove your identity and get you a tag.

it would be great if you could start a thread to talk about your approach to CMA now that you have had a pro fighting career. most of the CMA guys on here who have cross trained and fought full contact emphasize sparring and working with resisting opponents to really understand their techniques, even in the internal CMA styles, so it would be interesting to get your take on it.

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